DNA test results confirm that Rodney Rhines committed the 1988 rape that sent Michael Green to prison for 13 years, police said.

Rhines, 44, surrendered to Cleveland police on Oct. 22.

He told police his faith in God forced him to confess to the rape after reading about Green's ordeal in a five-day series in The Plain Dealer.

Green was released from prison in October 2001 after DNA testing proved he didn't commit the crime.

Rhines was arraigned last month after admitting he raped a terminally ill cancer patient at the Cleveland Clinic Center Hotel in 1988.

The Ohio statute of limitations on rape is 20 years.

Swabs of his saliva were sent to Ohio's Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation so that his DNA could be compared with the DNA sample found on a washrag the rapist used to wipe himself off after the attack.

Sgt. Donna Bell, a Cleveland police spokeswoman, confirmed the DNA match last night and said the case against Rhines will be reviewed by a grand jury. Rhines faces up to 25 years in prison.

Green said he was stunned but harbored no bitterness toward Rhines.

"I'm not the one to pass judgment on anyone," he said after learning Rhines turned himself in. "I will leave it to the justice system. I wouldn't wish prison on my worst enemy. So I can't wish that for him."

Rhines said he is ready to do the time.

"I have to give up my freedom to be a free man," he said. "This has weighed on me. It was time to make a wrong a right."